Chapter 108: The Statue of God
In the torture chamber of the Eight-pointed Nest, underground in the King's Campus.
The sudden darkness plunged the torture chamber into chaos. The prisoners were screaming and the guards were in a hurry. The cultists wanted to turn on the lights again, but it was extremely difficult in the pitch-black environment where they couldn't see anything.
Finally, after much difficulty, another guard took out the matches he usually used to light cigarettes from his body, and after he fumbled to light it, a faint light finally lit up in the dark environment. Just as the guard was about to rely on the faint light of the match to light other gas lamps, he suddenly found that in front of him, the faint light illuminated the indifferent face of a stranger.
“Who is it…ah!”
Before the man could say anything, his body was pierced by the sharp blade. He fell down after screaming. The only light that had just been lit was extinguished in an instant, and the entire space returned to darkness once again.
After the first scream, the first and third screams were heard one after another. Dorothy's corpse turned into an assassin in the darkness and stabbed the guards who were at a loss in the darkness to death one by one. The vibrations they created in the panic betrayed their location.
As screams rang out one after another, the number of guards was rapidly decreasing, and in the end there were only two Shadowers left. Although the two of them were unable to see in the dark environment, they relied on their keen hearing and movements to avoid the assassinations of the zombies again and again, and even fought back and cut off the head of a zombie.
As for the two Shadows, Dorothy directly controlled the zombies in the darkness to draw their guns and shoot continuously at the source of the vibration from a distance.
The Shadows can dodge bullets, but that doesn't mean they are faster than bullets. It's just that when they realize there's a gun pointed at them, they start dodging before the gunman opens fire.
In this dark environment, it was already difficult for the two Shadowmen to avoid the assassination from close range. They could not see anything in front of them, and they would not notice that there were guns pointed at them. Therefore, when the guns pointed at them sounded, they had no chance to dodge.
Continuous gunshots echoed throughout the narrow darkness, with the muzzle lights becoming the only flickering lights in the darkness. When the gunshots died down, the last two Shadowed Ones had already fallen. Now the only sounds in the dark torture chamber were the prisoners' screams.
After dealing with all the guards, Dorothy controlled a corpse to take out a gas lamp that she had prepared in advance and lit it. Then, she used the light of this gas lamp to light up the other gas lamps around it. The entire torture chamber was once again illuminated.
When the light returned, the prisoners trapped in the cells, whose bodies were covered with scars, screamed in fear when they saw the countless corpses lying on the ground. They looked at the two bloody men who were still standing, Dorothy's two corpses, with fear in their eyes.
"Please be patient, gentlemen. We have no intention of harming you. On the contrary, we can save you."
Looking at the frightened prisoners and slaves in front of him, the corpse puppet Brandon pressed the brim of his hat with his blood-stained hands and continued speaking.
Brandon's words made the prisoners stunned for a moment. At this moment, another zombie had found the key from the fallen guard. Then he began to open the doors of the cells one by one and released all the injured prisoners in one breath.
After regaining their freedom, the slaves finally reacted and cheered. Many of them gathered in front of Brandon, and some of them expressed their gratitude and relief.
"Oh... Holy Spirit, I thought I would be tortured to death by those guys. Thank you so much, you must be the angels sent by Holy Spirit! Angels who are specially sent to save us from these demons! What should I call you?"
Looking at the somewhat agitated prisoners in front of him, the corpse puppet Brandon lit a cigarette with his bloody hands, took a puff and answered with a smile.
"Rose Cross... you only need to know this term.
"Go ahead, prisoners. This road leads to the exit and to your freedom."
Brandon pointed to the exit not far away after he finished speaking. He then saw the wounded prisoners, after kowtowing in gratitude, supporting each other and walking towards the exit. Soon, not a single one was left. After all of them had left, Dorothy stepped out from behind a bunker at the entrance of the torture chamber and looked at the empty torture chamber before her.
Dorothy was not worried that the prisoners would trigger the alarm when they passed through the spider silk corridor after releasing them, because all those who could receive the spider silk warning had been killed by Dorothy.
After Nefernis successfully obtained the qualification to enter the inner area, she obtained general information about the Spider Silk Corridor from Eli. When this Spider Silk Corridor senses abnormal contact, it will silently send an alarm to the brains of the extraordinary people belonging to the Eight-Pointed Nest nearby.
This is why, even though Thorny was being entangled by the hunters in the distance, Dorothy still needed Nefernis to carry her in, because there must be some extraordinary people left in the inner area, so she couldn't trigger the alarm yet.
Now, the two apprentice-level Beyonders who stayed in the inner area have been killed by Dorothy, so she no longer has to worry about the spider web's situation.
After releasing the prisoners, Dorothy began to clean up the battlefield quickly. She collected all the bodies of the guards and stored them in the magic box to replenish the corpse reserves, and then continued to explore.
This time, Dorothy left a small corpse puppet to monitor the torture chamber, and then let another small corpse puppet lead the way, and she followed behind, continuing to go deeper into the ruins from the stairs of the torture chamber.
Holding a gas lamp, Dorothy walked slowly along the way and soon came to the first floor under the torture chamber. This floor was also an open space of about the same size as the torture chamber. There was no human figure in it, but with the faint light, Dorothy saw that there seemed to be a huge, blurry outline inside.
"It looks like... something?"
Thinking of this, Dorothy came to the stone pillar at the edge of the underground space, searched for a while, and found the gas lamp hanging on it. After trying it, she found that it could be lit.
"The gas lamps are still working. They were installed not long ago... This proves that those guys are also active on this floor..."
Dorothy thought so, and then she began to light the other gas lamps on this floor. After several lights were slowly lit up, the scene on this floor gradually appeared in front of Dorothy.
After that, she was stunned.
Unlike the torture chamber on the previous level, this level seemed to be the remains of a broken altar.
This altar, which was built in an unknown era, has long been in ruins. All the sacrificial vessels and ritual utensils have disappeared. Only the incomplete raised platform, cracked stone steps, and blurred carvings are left. The most conspicuous thing in the entire altar ruins is a statue standing on the platform, in the center of the broken altar.
The statue seems to be a young goddess with a slender figure. She is wearing a simple long thin dress and holding a round mirror in her hands on her chest.
If you only look at the body part, this is a beautiful statue of a dignified and peaceful goddess. However, even such a statue of a goddess, which can be called a fine work of art, has its head chopped off and replaced with a hideous spider head with multiple pairs of eyes, sickle-like fangs and claws.
Dorothy stood there in a daze with her eyes wide open, looking at the statue before her. She had never seen such a scene before.
Not long ago, on the train from Dorothy to Tivian, there was a photo among the cargo that Thordod, who was from the Ulster Security Bureau and was intercepted on the way, was transporting to Tivian. The photo showed a scene almost exactly the same as the one in front of us, with a statue of a goddess with its head chopped off and replaced with a spider.
"Interesting... There is one in the Razor Mountain area, and another one so far away. What kind of god is this statue? Why are there statues in different places in Plit? And one of them even appeared in the ruins of the Star Numbers Society. Could this god be related to the Star Numbers Society?"
Looking at the statue of the goddess in front of her, Dorothy thought in her heart, and at the same time began to carefully observe the specific details of the statue. She first focused her eyes on its head.
'The fracture of the head seems to be very broken, which is very different from the fracture of other parts. It should have been done recently. Moreover, the material used for this spider head sculpture is obviously different from the material of the goddess' body. The two are clearly not one and the same.
"So, this goddess statue and the spider head sculpture should be two different works, just forcibly put together. The goddess statue's head was cut off and replaced with this spider head. And this should have happened recently. It is very likely that the Eight-pointed Nest did it."
Dorothy observed and analyzed as she went along, and suddenly, she had an idea of why the Eight-Pointed Nest wanted to take control of the ruins.
'The Eight-pointed Nest took great pains to corrupt the Secret Knowledge Society, using the Secret Knowledge Society to facilitate activities in the school in order to find the entrance to the ruins. Its main purpose is probably this altar hidden in the ruins.
'They cut off the head of the goddess statue and replaced it with a spider. I don't know what the meaning is. And judging from the current situation, the strange situation in the Razor Peak area may have something to do with them.'
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